skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a very nuanced view on this.

While I'm partially glad someone put this together and did this, having seen firsthand what an utter shit show that job hunting has been for the past two years with no offers, dismal conversion ratios (x100 -> x10000), and this with a decade of directly applied professional experience in highly regulated sectors, as well as having all my colleagues amazed at the competency of the work and solutions I put out (which has just been going to waste these past two years).

I'm still only partial on this; however, because I don't think this does anything but make the problem anything but much worse in the long run for everyone.

Individuals using this are simply just treading water with assistance while drowning others like them (without), and businesses will adapt to the flood of applications (by not even manually reviewing them) and bad actors will simply increase the noise.

The people left out (those not using AI), will not find any work. No work, no prospects, despite education, investment, and direct experience; this is unacceptable and leads to unrest, and eventually something akin to 1776. Similar jobless conditions were present leading up through the 1760s prior to the American Revolution.

I think it should come as no surprise that this is a hellscape when you depend on work to get food and other life necessities, and businesses that adapt sign themselves up for deflationary spirals of doom (not being able to find qualified applicants). People won't put up with it. You see people turning to crime in California over retail thefts, and then laws being passed making it more draconian, then violence becomes commonplace. Its a vicious cycle and its preventable if one is rational enough to see it.

The process people have been using is not good at qualifying people, and really most of what people are looking in specific jobs is magical thinking that doesn't correspond to their actual requirements. Time is limited; on both sides.

Now what is the underlying problem?
It is that the same mechanism used by RNA interference in a cellular network, is being created by AI in a communications network from both sides of the participants creating interference so labor relations is sabotaged and fails from interference. I would not be surprised if many of those ghost jobs out there are actually digitally fabricated by China. They have the most to benefit from destroying the underpinnings of western society and driving people crazy in a pre-war footing setting.

If people are unable to regulate themselves, and this first goes to the producers in an economy, then laws need to be made so that those unintelligent people don't destroy society for everyone else.
Ten times? Foo. Maybe double.

But that's still twice the cost, for only a potential win. Better check first that it helps somebody write better/more correct/quicker code.

E.g. we wanted to change our text-screen video driver to allow a full-screen overlay (many years ago). The programmer assigned the task was changing the text-blit code to know about certain lines on the screen that were going to be the 'nested' window, which could be 'up' and masking a subset of the window below, or 'down' and the full screen should be displayed as normal.

He'd been hacking away, changing every case in the code to 'know about' the particular window that was planned. Pulling his hair out, getting nowhere.

I suggested a simple indirection buffer, where each line of a virtual display was pointed to indirectly. To put the subwindow 'up' or 'down' you just pointed those lines of the main screen to a buffer, and pointed the lines of the subwindow to the hardware store for video text.

All his changes folded into 'access display indirectly'. Trivial. Then the up/down code became a loop that changed a pointer and copied some text.

That was actually an abstraction, and actually much shorter/faster/simpler to understand and change.

Later we could change the window dimensions, have multiple windows etc with no change to the video driver.
God, I wish I could respond to denied applicants like a human, but the threat of legal action prevents me from giving good feedback. I know it sucks, but I'm not sure what to do about this, and I'm already so burnt out from the hiring process as it is, it's hard to work up the strength to do this fight as well.

Not to mentioned I spend forever doing it, there's so many and I wouldn't want to do it halfway...
I think your analysis applies to Neovim too.
Or could we say, during this Congress? They even worked out some laws, but then one party refused to pass them, openly saying they wanted to undermine their opponents.
I wonder how much of this is due to the end of semiconductor scaling. At some point, if hardware performance-per-cost doesn't increase, things will stabilize and new applications will dry up. The computer industry could become like, say, the machine tool industry. Important, but not a source of runaway profits.
Not OP, but here's how I read it: the SEO operators are driving traffic to google's ad network, where google make's its money. They aren't necessarily paying google much: the ad buyers are doing that, but they deliver the eyeballs to google's ads.

Its kind of like the US hospital system, where doctors are considered by the hospital, if not de jure then certainly de facto, to be the real customers of the hospital. Doctors don't pay the hospital much of anything -- the patients do, usually via their insurance company -- but without the doctors, no procedures happen (i.e., no "traffic.") Hospitals can't bill for room and board, nursing services, therapy, etc., where the hospital makes its operating income without the doctors, and in markets where multiple hospitals exist, doctors drive the patients to the hospital(s) of the doctor's choice. Ergo, the doctor is the "real" customer of the hospital.

The hospitals can and have adapted to get a bigger share of the revenue pie by hiring their own doctors and buying up the clinics that drive a lot of customers to hospitals in the first place, just like Google has introduced products that are more vertically integrated, but the basic dynamic still exists where they are dependent on third parties to deliver customers.
>So during the first night I kick off a long job

Just curious, are you running HPC jobs?
I stumbled upon Unicon because I installed the noweb [1] literate programming system from scratch some time ago. It uses Icon as an (optional) dependency to create cross-references during the weaving process. The fallback is based on Awk, but inferior in features. Anyway, if you have read this far, you should check out noweb and of course (Un)Icon.

[1] https://github.com/nrnrnr/noweb
> But as a hiring manager, this is the last thing we want.

Job seekers do not care and should not care what you want. They want the job, you are paid to find the best candidate. Just arriving at a situation where you get flooded with hundreds of resumes, means that you or your organisation has failed with what you were trying to do. You should have had hand picked candidates ready in the pipeline when it came time to hire. You are a hiring manager after all.
I wish they'd fix their Chromecast support (they apparently only support recent versions).
Most such things are more about insider cultural knowledge than actual money. Most “upper class” activities and styles can be done cheap or free, but you need to know how.
I assume he's just being over dramatic. I use Perplexity every day, multiple times per day, and it almost completely replaced Google for me in such areas as coding or technological research. Also, I never used nor planning to use ChatGPT or Claude (I use private open models instead - Mistral Nemo, Qwen, etc.). But I also feel like "I'm not unique in this regard", lol.
Betteridge's law of headlines almost certainly applies here.
The Road? Not something you ever need to watch more than once but if you want to internalize bleakness it worked for me.
When I go back home to South GA, I see first hand the majority of people in my own extended family believe everything the Bible says literally as well as people who I went to private Christian school with.
There's a lot of ceremony to run jdtls!

I find it easier to just install language servers using brew. Then the command can be simplified to

cmd = { 'jdtls', '-data', home_dir .. '/.local/state/jdtls/' .. project_name },

My ftplugin/java.lua is about 100 lines, with most of it being settings and key bindings.
A lot of people listened to music from YouTube as their primary source besides an FM radio before Spotify was available as it is now. YouTube somewhat famously signed deals with music labels back in the day. Content ID was the controversial, but necessary compromise for the music to remain on YouTube. I am pretty sure a very significant percentage of music listeners globally listen mainly from YouTube, I did it and I also saw a lot of people doing it.

It may seem stupid or counter productive, but it is easy and good enough. YT Music is a clear upgrade for those users.

I think YT Music makes more sense than many of the Google initiatives and it will continue to make sense as long as they will have deals with music labels.
Because I want her to find authoritative sources, read, learn, understand, think critically, etc. rather than taking a given answer at face value.
CHERI Alliance Launches, Adds Google, to Tackle Threats at the Hardware Level
I keep holding out hope that one day my totally genuine, slightly rusty, slightly nervous, takes all 40 minutes to solve the Leetcode medium style will be seen as so refreshing and honest I’ll be an insta-hire.

Not yet!
It's fascinating to me that Google didn't yet crack the actual discovery of websites and information. Google is constrained to 10 search results by design because majority of people won't ever go to the second search results page. So basically they have to figure out how to put as much useful information and links on the first page of search results. Btw I think we need web directories now more than ever.
Adding a topline response echoing the same thing.

Been on the job hunt since October 1, and have done hundreds of applications, yet only spoken to 3 companies, and made it past the hiring manager once.

I’m a technical product manager with 10+ years and most recently was head of product at a healthtech company. It seems like none of my experience or background matters for the initial screen.

The most frustrating part has been spending time to update a resume and a cover letter to get a rapid rejection obviously done via AI. The fastest rejection I’ve received was 2 minutes.

It is at the point where the information-asymmetry between company and applicant is so high that I don’t think it is worth the time or effort to craft a customized resume and cover letter to match the job description. Not even with the “help” of LLMs.

The promise of Remote hiring now is proving to be a double-edged sword. It can be easier to get hired, but it means competing in an almost global applicant pool.

As a way to keep me occupied I’m building a personal tool to journal my work history and use the journal as a source to leverage an LLM to customize my resume and cover letter to a job description that sounds like me. Just need to keep the momentum up for both the continued job hunt and personal projects.

Though its starting to wear on me.
Wouldn’t “invisible” back office people in product strategy and sourcing be able to identify more products that appeal to a diverse set of customers? If you think DEI is only about having multiple colors of people in marketing stock photos or as customer service staff, you’re way, way off.
Risking freedom? You mean doing your part for freedom for all
> All the CEOs are investing money in AI and that budget has to come from somewhere. So we have reduced hiring.

Indeed. That was even communicated officially by several companies during their layoffs (including Google, iirc).
* End of Moore's Law
Who convinces people in other industries that change? Big shifts affect blue collar and professional workers all the time.
> If it takes a qualified candidate 100's of applications to land a single interview, then can you blame someone for automating it?

Yes, a candidate is responsible for their own actions. This logic only sounds good until you’re on the hiring side and you see the stark difference between the LLM abuser applications and the people who are genuinely applying.

Those people who have to apply to 100s of jobs are probably in that situation because they’re spraying low-effort LLM resumes around and most hiring managers can see right through this game by now.

> I'd say that having the initiative and ability to automate it well would make this guy a great hire, if he hadn't already found a job!

Doesn’t work that way, in my experience. The people who game their way through the application process don’t suddenly switch to honest and high performing employees after they start. They continue the process of trying to min-max their effort given to the company, riding the line of finding how little or how low quality work they can get away with.

The mythical lazy applicant who suddenly becomes a brilliant and loyal employee isn’t realistic.
Russia hardly has high speed rail, it's just one line (Moscow to St. Petersburg) and top speed is just 200 km/h for most of the line.
what about when someone provides long-term value? They would be replaced by a short-term thinking corp (namely, all of them) for providing less value than an alternative with it's value purely in the short-term.

We are accelerating by preferring short-term gains. Like a fire becoming an explosion, that's modern society. Corps now throw the future under the bus for a slight boost in short-term value.
This applies equally to everyone is always the rallying cry when a rule applies to everyone while not being equally onerous to everyone. It's like dress codes in schools that are much easier for girls to violate than boys, or office hairstyle bans that seem to only target styles used by black people.
If this is the case, why do I get someone in India when I call US based companies for support (during their midnight)?

Should US employees do support for Indian companies during our midnight too? I'm being honest, I can probably work for a few pennies since I was laid off months ago. Anything will help keep me going at this point.
Reminds me a bit of 2008, when I'd regularly encounter recently laid off bankers getting drunk and bemoaning their situation with some passion. It was hard to have much sympathy for people who'd earned enormous salaries and somehow failed to put any aside for an emergency...
I use Perplexity and it routinely confabulates while linking to the source it confabulates from. Parent has a valid gripe that AI is essentially damaging their reputation by pretending to cite its information with a credible source, I wish there were some legal avenue to sue but it's not quite libel is it?
Having worked for a startup and lost my job to remote workers in a foreign country because they were cheaper and being told "we can hire 3 or 4 of them for the price of you" has left a bitter taste in my mouth.
There is no right to globalism, and thus the US government isn't forcing companies to be globalist. Globalism is simply the inevitable result of capitalist incentives in the global marketplace, and the US has benefited greatly from it. Not all Americans, obviously, but certainly those that capitalism is intended to benefit (the capitalist class.)

And I guess the petite-bougeousie of the American tech class is getting a rude awakening that they're just labor after all, and thus not entitled to eat from the table they set.
My point is that that had been my experience hiring in a 10 person company and a 30k person company, and that the “suggested” AI screening isn’t happening - it’s probably that your application is the same as the other 300 applications that went in.
Question: many of these could be day trips, if train schedule permits, if one is trying to cover many cities during a single trip.

I know it’s not an ideal way to visit Europe, but just humor me please.

What’s a good city to make the base, which has good connectivity with as many different cities in different countries as possible, and is a good destination in itself?
This system still does incentivize the board to accept (or at least not deter) junk or fraudulent applicants.
Nepotism is most associated with relatives although I guess it doesn't have to be. But I've definitely gotten several jobs through senior managers I had worked with which largely bypassed the whole HR system where it existed.
Why don't you use Kagi? It has better search and you can customize a lot of things, even turning off their LLM
What should be illegal, specifically? What concrete action should be made illegal?

These are people hired locally within their respective countries by local corporations owned by holdings in the US. How can you make it illegal for a company to hire people legally in other countries through their legal non-US incorporations?
Even if it did prevent 10% of suicides by train, it stands to reason that a huge portion of those 10% would simply become suicides by jumping off a bridge.
As a white male (I only mention this since you did), I didn't have any trouble finding employment this year. I wrote about my experience here: https://sjer.red/blog/2024/job-hunt/

I do believe the market is pretty bad though, especially for new grads. I don't think it'll ever recover because of AI, and that realistically you'll have to be talented, passionate, or hard-working to work as a software engineer.
Software ones? Absolutely.

Companies selling physical goods lead to a decent amount of jobs in every country they operate in by definition. Not so for software.

It is US big tech who has for a decade or 2 reaped enormous benefits from extracting large sums of money from non-US economies while contributing near-zero back to those economies (often not just near-zero but straight up deeply negative amounts due to externalities).
The states comparison is just rhetoric. Around a half-dozen states don't even have 1 million residents.
This doesn't hold up to a cursory analysis of Carlsen's rating. You can see Carlsen's historical ELO score on FIDE's website and look at it year over year and the difference between Carlsen and the #2, #3, #4, etc... is pretty consistent and very impressive. Usually the difference between a player ranked N and a player ranked N + 1 is about 5-10 ELO points, but Carlsen's is consistently 30+ including at this moment.

https://ratings.fide.com/top_lists.phtml
well, it was during the technical interview, and it was just a couple of engineers doing the interview. I was just geeking out on all the problems I was solving (and creating).

and to be honest, I was too nerves to think about if it was risky or taboo.
In Germany: Nowhere because the Deutsche Bahn is late again:
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-a-third-of-long-distance-train...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/oct/14/its-the-sam...
"The distro should only carry the software for the OS itself and any applications for the user should come with all their dependencies, like on Windows."

You can run distros/OS that works as you like. Other people can run other OS that works like they want.
A more compact and beautiful relation exists between integers and finite rooted trees exist, imo.

David W. Matula found a correspondence between trees and integers using prime factorization, and reported it in 1968 in SIAM:
"A Natural Rooted Tree Enumeration by Prime Factorization", SIAM Rev. 10, 1968, p.273 [1]

Others have commented on it before, search the web for Matula Numbers

I independently found this relation when working on a bar code system that was topologically robust to deformation. I wrote a document that explained this relation here[2].

I created an interactive javascript notebook that draws related topological diagrams for numbers. [3]

[1] http://williamsharkey.com/matulaSIAM.png

[2] https://williamsharkey.com/integer-tree-isomorphism.pdf

[3] https://williamsharkey.com/MatulaExplorer/MatulaExplorer.htm...
100% agree with everything you said! Yea, I didn’t really want to be a landlord, my wife got pregnant and requested a mandatory move to the suburbs. Bought a place and while I was moving two high school teachers approached me about renting it (this was in 2012). My wife and I decided to let them rent. we never wanted to make any money from it, the place itself, as you can imagine appreciated in value over the years, and we just take whatever money we need to cover the mortgage and condo fees. several friends that are landlords have had horror stories and I would
rather not make more money I don’t need for a extra headache.

what you are saying though is a core problem with writing sensible laws, if they are landlord-leaning the landlords will be evicting left and right to make a few extra bucks. if they are tenant-leaning you get families moving from minnesota do east coast that pay sec deposit and first month’s rent and then live in your place for 18 months without possibility of eviction (some covid laws are still in place…)
> 3) While advanced skillsets and deep experience is necessary in many (but not most) startups, and while these skills are more difficult to find in India or Pakistan, the reality is, for many, many tech companies, most of the work doesn't require top-notch skills. You don't need a top 99% percentile in frontend engineering skills for a 1-year-old "name whatever category" app. And with the recent rise of focus on profitability, frugality, and the difficulty in fund-raising, being cognizant of cost per talent is now a thing.

a. Note that "outside of the US" covers more than India and Pakistan. Google, Microsoft, Meta, etc. all have sizeable research or R&D centers in France, Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, UK, etc. Most of these countries have engineers of a level comparable (better by some metrics, worse by others) to US engineers.

b. I've known several top-notch programmers from India. One of them is an important contributor to the Linux kernel, another to the core of Firefox. I have no clue how common that is, but be wary of stereotypes.
Putin would be asking for WW3 if he tried that and it would not end well for him.

A ton of big tech companies opened large offices in Poland in the past few years. It’s starting to look like a pretty major tech hub. If you look at Google or Box job boards most of their open roles in Europe are in Warsaw.
Or give away more explosive toys to Ukraine.

A cut cable is expensive to repair.

More toys donated to Ukraine won't just cost Russia money.

Unless the cable cutting is actually a real threat, we should suck it up, repair and donate to Ukraine.

(If an actual shooting war broke out in Europe, it's hard to tell of those cables would last long anyways)
I think the reason this might resonate with some is it's deeper than an opinion. This is a value, and that kind of thing inspires when defended. Of course this being political, there are deeply held values on the other side as well, so those demands may not go away.
Spotify directly funds/endorses Joe Rogan.
I tried giving honest and actionable interview feedback at first.

A scary number of candidates did not take rejection well and tried to use my feedback against me. I had people trying to argue that my feedback was wrong, someone stalking me across social media and trying to argue everything there, and eventually someone who threatened to use my feedback as the basis for a discrimination lawsuit.

So now we’re back to simple “we’re proceeding with other candidates” feedback.

If we’re going to play the blame-game, then you have to see the full picture. Many candidates can be awful and even vengeful. Many people do not handle rejection well.